Our Mission
At Facilitivity, our mission is to enrich people’s lives at work by helping them work in an environment that supports values and principles that come from our roots. Our roots are based in the Agile Software Development movement. For us, this is best summed up in the principle of “Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.” Originally, we embodied this by helping Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, RTEs and similar professionals in the technology world deepen their understanding of Facilitation and Professional Coaching as applied to individuals, teams, and organizations. Now we are expanding this to all leaders in technology organizations. And by leader we mean anyone that is embodying leadership qualities whether it is officially part of their role or not.
We believe that as people are implementing large changes (such as Agile) in technology organizations, they go through all of the same things that one goes through when making other life choices such as where to go to school, what to do for a living, and who to be in a relationship with. Professional Coaching provides the tools to help people navigate the challenges associated with Agile adoption in a way that is more likely to succeed because they are responsible for their own choices and choose the path that best fits who they are as a person, team, and organization. Our mission includes fostering ethical, trust-based environments where individuals are supported in making choices aligned with their values.
To this end, we have interleaved Professional Coaching into all of our offerings and have also designed two programs specifically focused on Professional Coaching. Our premier Professional Coaching program is our ICF accredited program “Advanced Agile Coaching.” We believe that while Agile knowledge is important, it is not enough to help people adopt Agile ways of working such that it is self-sustaining. They need Agile Coaches that can provide the Agile training to form the basis, but then they will need Agile Coaches that have Professional Coaching training to help individuals, teams, and organizations discover, explore, and choose their own solutions to create that self-sustaining change. Our Advanced Agile Coaching program has been specifically designed for this purpose.
We have now introduced “Leading Through Coaching in Tech” which expands on our current ICF accredited program and leads us towards a Tier 2 ICF program. We believe that this program will help us bring our mission to a wider audience and deepen our own understanding of what coaching is and can be.